This is circulating around:
“We’ve got a meeting scheduled for Obama volunteers in Durham! It’s Monday night, February 18th, at 7PM at the Main Durham Library (Roxboro and Holloway Streets). This will be an organizational meeting to figure out what we want to do in Durham–things like register new voters, organize […]

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I admit I was beginning to despair of ever finding a literary device that could truly convey the ordeal of hearing an entire George Bush State of the Union address. But recently the fitting real-life metaphor, also available in a simile, presented itself. My long quest is over. This story, from the Des Moines Register, […]

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Former senators Sam Nunn and David Boren have invited at least 17 prominent political figures, many of them former office holders, to meet in Norman, Okla., on Monday, Jan. 7.
This story appears to have attracted less attention than most straight-to-video movies. (I found it as a subheadline from the Atlanta Constitution on news.google.com, and the […]

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It has been reported that experts have concluded that the tiger that killed one man and mauled two others outside its cage at the San Francisco Zoo may have indeed managed to jump up and scramble over the top of its 12-foot fence on its own. An official of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums […]

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Given seven years of Bush press conferences, one could easily expect that anyone who willingly watched Thursday’s latest was a participant in one of those cruel experiments that seem to be so fashionable in alien abductions these days. I caught most of Mr. Bush’s insult fest, and I’ll admit that that it gave […]

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This town — and this party — needs a fresh infusion of leadership badly. One of my biggest political goals is finding more women to run for office in Durham, but it’s proving difficult. The crap you have to go through to get elected in this town (i.e., kowtowing to political action committees and enduring […]

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